[clean-list] Functions that look the same

John van Groningen johnvg@cs.kun.nl
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:30:00 +0200


>On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Arjen wrote:
>> Clean specifically, which is only 8 bytes in size. Compiler optimizations
>> can also influence the result by changing a division by a multiplication
>> with the reciprocal, which could be the case in the above example.
>
>BTW, such non-conservative optimisations can be a major nuisance for
>flonum programmers who want to rely on the specification of the
>machine arithmetics (the IEC559/IEEE754 standard, if they're
>lucky).  A compiler mode excluding such optimisations is highly
>desirable.

This optimisation is not implemented in the Clean compiler.

Regards,
John van Groningen